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SF2A -Semaine de l'Astrophysique Française, eds. J. Bouvier, A. Chalabaev and C. Charbonnel, 65
in Extreme Solar Systems, n/a, (2007)
Circumstellar environments are now routinely observed by dedicated high-contrast imagers on large, ground-based observatories. These facilities combine extreme adaptive optics and coronagraphy to achieve unprecedented sensitivities for exoplanet detection and spectral characterization. However, non-common path aberrations (NCPA) in these...
In the context of the SPHERE planet finder project, we further develop and characterize a recently proposed method for the efficient direct detection of exoplanets from the ground using spectral and angular differential imaging. The method, called ANDROMEDA, combines images appropriately into "pseudo-data", then uses all of them in a...
SPHERE is a second generation instrument for the Very Large Telescope (VLT) which will aim at directly detecting the intrinsic flux of young giant exoplanets thanks to a dedicated extreme adaptive optics system and coronagraphs. Exoplanet detection in the near-infrared will be performed in parallel with an integral field spectrograph and a...
This paper presents the sharpest near‐IR images of the massive cluster R136 to date, based on the extreme adaptive optics of the SPHERE focal instrument implemented on the ESO Very Large Telescope and operated in its IRDIS imaging mode. The crowded stellar population in the core of the R136 starburst compact cluster remains still to be...
Coronagraphic imaging of exoplanets and circumstellar environments using ground-based instruments on large telescopes is intrinsically limited by speckles induced by uncorrected aberrations. These aberrations originate from the imperfect correction of the atmosphere by an extreme adaptive optics system; from static optical defects; or from...
IAUC200, Direct Imaging of Exoplanets: Science & Techniques. Proceedings of the IAU Colloquium #200, eds. C. Aime and F. Vakili, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press n/a, pp. 317-322 (2006)
We present new near-infrared photometric measurements of the core of the young massive cluster NGC3603 obtained with extreme adaptive optics. The data were obtained with the SPHERE instrument mounted on ESO's Very Large Telescope, and cover three fields in the core of this cluster. We applied a correction for the effect of extinction to our...
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Context: Circumstellar disks and self-luminous giant exoplanets or companion brown dwarfs can be characterized through direct-imaging polarimetry at near-infrared wavelengths. SPHERE/IRDIS at the Very Large Telescope has the capabilities to perform such measurements, but uncalibrated instrumental polarization effects limit the attainable...
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